PHAROMACRUS FULGIDUS, Gow.

Shining Train-bearer.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Mas.—Cupite aureo-viridi ; rectricibus tribus externis utrinque ad basin nagris, per partem apicalem
dimidiam albis.

Male.—Face and head golden bronze ; chest, wing-coverts, upper surface of the body and upper

tail-coverts deep golden green ; wings jet-black ; tail black, the apical portion of the three
outer feathers on each side white, with black
thighs black ; bill rich yellow.

Total length, 122 inches ; bill, 1;

shafts ; under surface very deep blood-red ;
wing, 7+; tail, 7.

Female.—Head dark brown : chest brown, washed with green on its upper portion ; wing-

coverts and back reddish or bronzy green ; upper tail-coverts golden green ; wings black ;

primaries blackish brown, margined with buff; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-

coverts light blood-red ; tail black, the three lateral feathers on each side toothed on their

external webs and narrowly tipped with greyish white.

Trogon (Calurus) fulgidus, Gould, Mon. of Trogons, List of Plates, sp. 24.

Trogon fulgidus, Gould, Mon. of Trog., pl. 24.

Calurus fulgidus, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p- 71, Calurus, sp. 6.—Ib. List of
Spec. of Birds in Coll. Brit. Mus., pt. ii. sect. 1, Fissirostres, p- £6.—Bonap. Consp. Gen.

Av., p. 152, Calurus, sp. 4.—Sclater in Proce. of Zool. Soc., part xxiii. Dela

 

Tue Pharomacrus SJulgidus, like the P. Antisianus, has of late ye

ars been sent to Europe in tolerable abun-
dance from Venezuela, whence many specimens were broug

ht by the late Mr. Dyson. It occasionally arrives
m collections from Bogota; in what locality these latter specimens have been collected is unknow
but I believe the bird is only found to the westward, and perhaps the north-westward of that city.
It may be at all times distinguished from the P. Antisianus by the basal half of the tail-feathers being
black, and the terminal portion only being white; it has also a more golden-coloured head, and a lesser

amount of the tufted crest-like feathers which spring from before the nostrils; in size also it is rather
smaller.

n to me,

The specimens from which the figures in the first edition of this monograph were taken, and which were
at that time in the possession of Madame Goubie, of Paris, were not fully adult, and consequently the bills
were not so highly coloured as at the period of maturity.

The Plate represents both sexes of the natural size.

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